Sometimes when you write this nonsense, you get the feeling that certain people are reading it, if not fully understanding it.<\/p>\n
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Last week, we asked Ange, if it wasn’t too much trouble, to ensure a spirited and enthusiastic performance in the second half of games to match the whirlwind start in the first.<\/p>\n
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What we should have clarified is we meant that attitude should be in both halves of the same game.<\/p>\n
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Yesterday, in dispatching Raith Rovers from the Cup, the team did have a spirited second half, but didn’t bother with the first.<\/p>\n
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But hey, baby steps.<\/p>\n
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The side eventually ran out 4-0 winners, but there was a lethargy in the opening forty five, although credit does have to go to Raith for making a fist of it.<\/p>\n
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Not as much credit as certain BBC sportsound reporters gave them, one actually telling the Raith boss that it “wasn’t a 4-0 game ” , when most outlets printed that exact score, as a way of trying to make the game sound much more even than it actually was,<\/p>\n
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Wind , rain and the high cost of living all contributed to a smaller crowd, and no doubt the absence of the Green Brigade made for a flatter atmosphere…all they have to do is stop setting things on fire and they’ll be allowed out to play again…. but a 4-0 is a 4-0 win, and as it’s a cup game one can safely say job done.<\/p>\n
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As usual, social media needed a whipping bhoy or two, and James Forrest and Mikey johnston would be better advised not reading some of the comments, the former being told he’s done and the latter being reminded he’s never really started, bith of which claims are ludicrous, and both claims won;t help the situation.<\/p>\n
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Forrest has been booted up and down the park for a decade now, and that kind of wear and tear will have an effect, whereas Johnston will try even harder to silence the critics, which means he’ll take more risks and make more mistakes.<\/p>\n
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The reaction to both has highlighted the difference between fans and supporters….<\/p>\n
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Anyway, I’ll bet Greg Taylor was glad of the respi<\/p>\n
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Last week, in a you Tube interview, Matt Smith, who was the captain at Brisbane Roar under Ange Postecoglou, talked about what made the boss angry….<\/p>\n
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\u201cYeah, he gets angry. He gets angry when you don\u2019t follow the principles.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t care about making mistakes. If you make mistakes trying to do the right thing he\u2019ll praise you and support you, he\u2019ll back you one million per cent. If you start not being brave, not working hard enough, if you\u2019re cheating or cutting corners he\u2019ll be angry.<\/em><\/p>\n He punched the whiteboard when we played away at Perth. We scored with the last kick of the half to make it 2-2. I remember him at half-time, all of a sudden he erupted about not moving, not showing, not adjusting, not being brave enough and hiding. Not doing what we had been doing week in week out.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what makes Ange so passionate about his beliefs. If you stop doing that, the system breaks down. All the time you are doing that, it\u2019s like a wave, you keep riding.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s very determined about how he wants his teams to play and his ethics culturally within that group. If you step outside of that, he\u2019s there to educate. It\u2019s all about the why? He had a very good way of articulating his beliefs.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you put the sound up in this video, from yesterday, you’ll see that Nir biton found out that the manager has a<\/p>\n very good way of articulating his beliefs.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n